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HOUSE 2662116th CongressReferred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.

Asylum Seeker Protection Act

Last Action
6/26/2019

Actions

  • 2019-06-26Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.
  • 2019-05-10Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
  • 2019-05-10Introduced in House
  • 2019-05-10Introduced in House

CRS Summary

As of 2019-05-10 (00)

Asylum Seeker Protection Act

This bill prohibits the use of funds to implement or enforce the Migrant Protection Protocols announced on December 20, 2018.

(The protocol generally requires that aliens who are not clearly admissible arriving by land along the U.S.-Mexico border be returned to Mexico while their immigration proceedings are pending, rather than remain in the United States. The protocol applies to aliens seeking asylum but who have been assessed not to be more likely than not to face persecution or torture in Mexico.)


Cosponsors (20)

  • Adriano Espaillat (D-NY)
  • ELEANOR NORTON (D-DC)
  • Sylvia Garcia (D-TX)
  • Ilhan Omar (D-MN)
  • Ruben Gallego (D-AZ)
  • Rashida Tlaib (D-MI)
  • Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX)
  • NYDIA VELAZQUEZ (D-NY)
  • Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR)
  • Norma Torres (D-CA)
  • SUSAN DAVIS (D-CA)
  • Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ)
  • Madeleine Dean (D-PA)
  • BARBARA LEE (D-CA)
  • Filemon Vela (D-TX)
  • Ben Luján (D-NM)
  • Juan Vargas (D-CA)
  • Jackie Speier (D-CA)
  • Mary Scanlon (D-PA)
  • Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (D-FL)

Subjects

  • Border security and unlawful immigration
  • Department of Homeland Security
  • Executive agency funding and structure
  • Immigration status and procedures
  • Latin America
  • Mexico
  • Refugees, asylum, displaced persons
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